Having successfully discovered the wreck of the lost South Korean tanker ‘Stellar Daisy’ and completed all tasks required including retrieving the voyage data recorder ‘black box’, Ocean Infinity’s vessel ‘Seabed Constructor’ left the site and is en route to Montevideo.
Stellar Daisy sank on 31 March 2017, while transporting iron ore from Brazil to China, killing 22 of the 24 crew. In mid-February, Ocean exploration company Ocean Infinity informed it successfully located the wreck, 3461 meters deep in the South Atlantic Ocean, approximately 1800 nautical miles due west of Cape Town.
Upon locating Stellar Daisy, a thorough inspection of the site was carried out which included Ocean Infinity’s team conducting over 4500 minutes of detailed video investigation of the wreckage. During the inspection, human remains were recorded, approximately 1 km away from the wreck.
Representatives of both the Government of South Korea, who awarded Ocean Infinity the contract to conduct the search, and the families of Stellar Daisy’s crew, were present throughout the operation.
I would like to thank our team for fulfilling what we set out to do, and we hope that the speed with which we accomplished our obligations has been of some comfort to the families of those who lost loved ones in this tragedy. I would also like to thank the Korean Government for placing their trust in us. Once we have completely processed all the data collected we will be able to deliver it to the authorities. In the meantime we very much hope to be involved further in helping those affected. We have accordingly offered our services to the South Korean Government to carry out any specific expanded search, and potential recovery, operations they may ask us to do. We await urgent confirmation for this highly important additional work,
…Oliver Plunkett, Ocean Infinity’s CEO, said.
